Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolutionist, His Grace emphasized that Scottish secession is not his object but solemnly declared: "The question of self-government for Scotland has grown from a purling stream into a roaring cataract...
Higher institutions of learning might probably consider an extension into the realm of maternity. When "Bacchanalian Arts 1a, 1b, 1d," grace dull course indexes, Universities may find a way to fill the cup of learning. "Fat rats, thin rats, scrawny rats" will throng after the elusive flute. "Heaviside Calculus" and "Molecular Forces" possess a soporific charm all their own, but who can foretell the rush of "black rats, white rats, and brown rats," to worship at the feet of a seer who could outline the indefinable incompatibility of champagne and muligataway...
...forearm. He is privileged to take the floor and join in legislative debate at will. He must vote to break a tie and may vote whenever else he chooses. As leader of the House majority he picks the legislation he wants brought up. Members speak only at his grace. During the last six days of a session his power to recognize a motion to suspend the rules makes him an absolute dictator of House procedure...
...making mockery of a solemn thing? A Cleveland churchman soon arose so to accuse him. In a Sunday sermon Rev. Howard Harper of Grace Episcopal Church, South, pointed out that the Anglican clergy first took up blessing the hounds because foxes were a menace to the countryside. "The fox is not a pest any longer," said Mr. Harper. "If a fox should cause a modern farmer trouble, the farmer would not assemble his friends and his neighbors, equip them with horns and red coats and ask them to ride to hounds in quest of the offending animal...
...ordinary but wide-eyed, simple young man. When he married Lucille, became a father, Manhattan apartment-dweller, traveling salesman for a big publisher, he thought everything was fine. But Lucille's clay was commoner than his. Her jealousy and his naivete combined to topple him from grace. Without altogether falling in love he became very very fond of Minnie. When he set up in business for himself it was Minnie who really made things go. At times she was his mistress, but never in office hours. Minnie finally realized that Richard was not the mistress-loving type, that...